"Shelling! Beware of Concealment!! Terrible shouts echoed in the National Guard fortifications, and the flying shells ravaged the officers and men of the National Guard who were lying on their stomachs behind the breastwork, their eyes full of fear.

Because the corpses lying here and there have proven the great power of the new howitzers of the Young Guard!

A six-inch shrapnel slashed across the graceful parabola and landed just on the crowd of National Guards clinging to the breastwork, and before they could even notice the anomaly, a loud explosion sounded overhead, and then the National Guard soldiers below lay on the ground and wailed as if they had been hit by a heavy hammer.

Because the officers and men of the National Guard were piled up behind the fortifications, this shrapnel caused dozens of casualties to the National Guard, and although most of them were not killed, they basically lost their combat effectiveness.

Due to the different time of the delay fuse detonation of the shrapnel and the difference in the distance and time of the flight, some shrapnel exploded in mid-air, and some fell to the ground and rolled several times before bursting, the most lethal is those shrapnel that exploded in the air, after bursting in mid-air without cover, all the shrapnel can fly around 360 degrees without obstacles, only the existence of living creatures around, basically will not leave a few 'lucky ones'.

And the shrapnel that falls on the ground, at least half of the lethality of the explosion will be absorbed by the ground, and the lethality is undoubtedly much worse.

After all, the shrapnel in this era is still detonated by black powder, and it is impossible to kill people by the shock wave of the explosion, and the main thing is to use hard objects such as shrapnel and iron balls to cut into the human body and cause injury.

Of course, if you happen to be unlucky enough to be detonated by a shrapnel next to you, you will also be injured by the blast wave.

It is precisely because the blast impact of the original shrapnel in this era is very weak, mainly relying on shrapnel to kill, and the shrapnel is made to set the delay fuse on the volley explosion as much as possible, rather than the landing explosion.

The test of the elastic performance of the grenade is to calculate the time of the landing point, and then install different lengths of delay fuses according to the actual range required by the battlefield to ensure that most of the shrapnel can explode before landing.

This control is completely artificial, which is another major reason for the instability of the shrapnel, if it were not for professional artillery, it is likely that the shrapnel would explode and kill one's own people as soon as it comes out of the muzzle......

Under the bombardment of a large number of six-inch howitzers, the morale of the National Guard was very low, and what was even worse was that the other side also had large-caliber 12-pounder infantry field guns, which constantly bombarded and smashed the field fortifications they had built, and even a few artillery positions!

This artillery battle has been going on for most of the day, and the defenders of the National Guard have been firing back and forth with the artillery of the Young Guards from the beginning, and now they are being beaten passively on one side......

"All stand up! Lin Haoda's Young Guards are up! "Amid the rumbling of artillery, the shouts of officers were heard throughout the wide National Guard lines.

Many soldiers of the National Guard even felt that they were hallucinating, and the shelling on the opposite side had not yet ended, so why did the infantry come up?

Aren't they afraid of hitting their own people?!

Soon, these National Guard soldiers understood why the opposite side dared to continue firing artillery, because as the Young Guards infantry 'marched forward', the artillerymen also divided into several batches in an orderly manner, pushing their guns slowly forward.

The artillery that had been moved forward was shelling the second line of defense of the National Guard, and so on, and by the time the Young Guard stepped into the first line of defense of the National Guard, almost all of the artillery had begun to extend its shelling to the rear.

In fact, after the artillery positions of the National Guard were paralyzed by hundreds of 12-pounder infantry field guns, the artillery of the Young Guards began to move forward, and it was precisely because the six-inch howitzers could move forward safely and within the effective range that the National Guard behind the defensive line was turned on their backs and their morale plummeted.

Under the command of the officers of the National Guard, the firing positions of each fortification were suddenly filled with flintlock muskets, and at least three people took turns behind each firing position, all of whom were equipped with firearms, which was much richer than the revolutionaries Lin Haoda had faced.

The troops of the bourgeoisie, which were fully equipped according to the standards of the regular army of the European army.

You must know that all the paramilitary fighters in the Girondin control area and the guns in the National Guard combined, have exceeded the 200,000 mark, that is, the Girondist regime has manufactured and purchased more than 200,000 flintlock pistols in just over a year, not counting the consumption of ammunition during the war and the cost of artillery......

This is the result of the support of the rich and nobles, although there is a lot of discount in terms of popular support, but this financial resource is definitely enough to meet the war.

At the same time, the officers and men of the National Guard, controlled by the Girondists, were paid much higher salaries than those of other forces in France, and were well paid, so that the officers and men were so loyal that they would obey orders even if they were asked to suppress the civilians of their own homeland.

As a matter of fact, the bourgeois National Guard, which was controlled by the Girondist regime, already had the appearance of a volunteer soldier in the city, on the one hand, with the general interests of the state and the nation, emphasizing discipline and loyalty to the country and the nation, and on the other hand, guaranteeing the personal expenses and livelihood of officers and men with very good military salaries.

The reason why the revolutionary army collapsed so quickly in the First French Republic controlled by Robespierre's government actually had a lot to do with the backward equipment of the revolutionaries and the fact that the military pay was about equal to nothing.

Under the uniform beat of drums, the Young Guards formed several columns and approached the first line of defense of the National Guard.

It did not take long for the officers and men of the bourgeois National Guard at the line to pull the trigger after the Young Guards had stepped into the theoretical effective range of the flintlock pistol within a hundred yards, in accordance with the standard rules of combat.

I saw that behind the breastwork of the bulge on the ground, bursts of white smoke floated from the ground, and there were casualties in the front row of the young guards walking in the queue.

Immediately afterwards, the beat of the drums became rapid, and the walking speed of the young guards who were stepping forward also increased to the extreme, and the junior officers who were walking in the front, with their sabers erected at their sides, strode forward with their companies with expressionless faces, and the young guards soldiers in the back were the first row with bayonets held forward diagonally, and the back rows of flintlock muskets with bayonets on their shoulders followed closely behind.